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If Republicans have a good year in 2010, they’ll take out plenty of Democrats in swing seats. If they have a great year, they may defeat senior Democrats such

The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a pipeline safety bill that calls for automatic shut-off valves on new pipelines and requires new safety inspections for pre-1970 natural gas pipelines like the one that exploded and killed eight people in San Bruno, California last year.

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Mexican President Felipe Calderon will address Congress on May 19, making this the first appearance of a Mexican president in the Capitol in almost 10 years

Despite the backlash GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has received this week for blasting fellow contender Texas Gov. Rick Perry for his (failed)

Georgia’s House Republicans have a simple warning for Democratic leaders still hoping to pass health care reform this year: Our state can’t afford it. In a

Financial regulatory reform uses multiple complex provisions to force banks to raise capital and lower risk. Today, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) offered his

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My CIA sources on Monday were surprised but not so dismayed by the news that Leon Panetta is President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head the agency. Jeff

They’ve been stalled on it for weeks, but tonight the Senate will vote on final passage of legislation providing a short-term extension of emergency

Talks of an Obama stimulus package didn’t prevent consumer confidence to plunge, leading to a devastating holiday shopping season for retailers. Sellers are about to fight to get buyers back.

Most Michigan city officials dread almost nothing more than the appointment of an emergency manager to oversee their affairs, especially now that those overseers have virtually limitless authority. But Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is threatening to request one if unions don’t accept his demands. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said Thursday that he’ll request a state-appointed emergency financial manager if the city’s 48 employee unions don’t make health care concessions, or if the state does not agree to extend the city’s special allowance for income and utility taxes

The Associated Press has done the dirty work of sorting through more than 5,000 challenged ballots in the Minnesota Senate recount, and its analysis should

Much of the attention on corn-based ethanol has focused on the role that this supposedly renewable fuel is playing in driving up global food prices.

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul will return to Iowa next week with town hall meetings in three cities on the western side of the state

Lindsay Beyerstein has the goods on Dede Scozzafava, the GOP’s luckless candidate in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. In September, Scozzafava’s campaign

Planned protests against the Keystone XL pipeline began this weekend in the nation’s capitol as activists and celebrities staged sit-ins at the White House, resulting in more than 100 of them being arrested. The protests were planned by the group Tar Sands Action . 70 people were arrested on Saturday at the White House, including some prominent figures: “It’s not the easiest thing on earth for law-abiding folk to come risk arrest.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dodged questions from a reporter at today’s daily briefing on whether President Obama would push the Environmental